Many men from youth cultivated since the days of smoking, drinking habits, over time, become a die-hard "smokers" or "drunkard." Little do they know this will cause lifelong infertility. First of all, cigarettes, alcohol can harm the male sexual function, causing male infertility. Smoking is causing damage to arteries of men, especially the common atherosclerosis risk factors. Atherosclerosis, the penile blood pressure index decreased significantly, blood type significantly reduced, and induce impotence. Drinking alcohol on male sexual function is also very harmful effects. Alcohol can cause gonadal toxicity, seriously damaged Leydig cells, inhibiting testosterone synthesis, so that a lower level of male hormones, leading to severe impotence. Secondly, cigarettes, alcohol can be directly harmed the gonads and sperm. Sperm dependence gonads, mainly testicular function; the same time, the generation of sperm cells showed rapid proliferation and cell differentiation, maturation, this process requires a lot of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and proteins, while the cigarette smoke concentrates containing cells induced distortion and obstruction lymphocyte DNA synthesis of the material, which in spermatogenesis, mature, and the proportion of abnormal sperm have a significant impact. Studies have shown that smokers the proportion of abnormal sperm in semen is much higher than non-smokers. Testes and other reproductive organs through the poison of alcohol, causing a lower level of serum testosterone, which led to loss of libido, sperm abnormalities, leading to male infertility. Therefore, in order to protect the normal male fertility, we must quit drinking.

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